Hi, I'm Tynan! I love life and explore its possibilities by ignoring common sense and discovering what is really possible. If you are sick of the Standard 9-5 Lifestyle and want more out of your life, you're in the right place.
Read more about Tynan.net or Contact me

RSS

Subscribe to my RSS feed and get 1-2 posts a week about living life outside the box.

Message Boards

Join us in the message boards, where members of the Tynan.net community meet.

Twitter

"@philgilbertjr It looks like you're in a real life version of Diablo in reply to philgilbertjr 2 days ago"

Follow Tynan on Twitter.

My mission is to change your life forever. In addition to writing articles on my site, I create very high quality products which I personally guarantee. Please take a minute to read about them.

Make Her Chase You

If you're not attracting the girls you REALLY want and don't have the dating life you think you deserve, you owe it to yourself to check out Make Her Chase You. Click here for more information.

Life Nomadic

I sold everything I owned and spent two years (and counting) in a perpetual state of travel. Life Nomadic is my guide to becoming a hard core traveler and seeing everything the world has to offer. Click here for more information.

Best of Tynan.net

Here are some of the best and most popular stories on my site. If you're new here, it is a good place to start. And yes, everything is true.

Crazy Stories

Mindset

Lifestyle

Geeky Stuff

Archived Stories

There are 569 posts written, dating back to 2005, just dying to be read by you. Click here for the archives.

Check out the latest pictures I've uploaded to my Flickr Account.

P1010986P1010983P1010978P1010975P1010962P1010902P1010891P1010882P1010876P1010874P1010869P1010865

Take Off Your Pants

No Pants Day 2010

Anderson, Todd, Stuart, Autumn, Tynan, Grace

“Umm… I have to kick out a lot of bums and crackheads. Take this.”

It was a puzzling statement. He handed us three bags of ground coffee, worth almost fifty dollars. We thought he was a fan of what we were doing, so we smiled at him. He didn’t smile back. Then it hit — we were being kicked out of Blue Bottle Coffee for not wearing pants, and being bribed with coffee to not make a scene. That’s probably a smart idea; people who go to respected coffee establishments without pants on might be more prone to causing scenes than the other patrons.

We took part in 2010 No Pants Subway Ride, a worldwide event where people take off their pants and ride on the subway at a particular time. There’s no cause, no mission, and no statement. Just hordes of people roaming around downtown without pants.

What I really like about the event is that it takes something people really want to do– walk around without pants– and makes it okay. There were over a thousand people participating, both pretty and ugly, thin and fat. People were thongs, briefs, boxers, lacy panties, and superman underwear. It was clear that most people weren’t uncomfortable walking around in public in their underwear, they were just uncomfortable with the social stigma of it. Take away the stigma by hosting an event, and it’s fun.

Even in an uninhibited person like myself, walking around bottomless fostered a sense of adventure and excitement. After the parade part of the event, five friends (some old, some made during the parade part) and I roamed around looking for adventure. After every stop, no one wanted to go home, so we asked each other, “what should we do next?”. We went through Chinatown, visiting a fortune cookie bakery and a restaurant (an Australian girl at the table next to us asked if there was a special event, or if this was an American fad), then we walked back to the mall to visit the spa, and finally ended up at Samovar Tea Lounge.

I’ve resolved to organize more events like this. Not necessarily big group events that involve pantslessness, but fun events for my friends where we break social conventions and make scenes.

Next time you find yourself bored, skip going to the movies. Get some friends together, take off your pants, and go wander around. Or go to the movies, but take off your pants first.

[del.icio.us] [Digg] [Facebook] [Reddit] [StumbleUpon] [Twitter] [Email]

Related Posts

The Most Important Thing in The World

What’s the most important thing in the world? Social skills, if you ask me.

Link to The Most Important Thing in The World

Change Your Life

Make Her Chase You

If you're a guy who wants to understand women and attract the ones you used to think were "out of your league", check out my book, Make Her Chase You.

There are 10 Comments.


Tanner @ LifeDestiny
Jan 11th, 2010 @ 10:32 pm

Damn right, girls in thongs. Me in my American flag speedos. I am there!


CountofMC
Jan 11th, 2010 @ 10:50 pm

Sounds good…I’m always up for taking my pants off!


Danny
Jan 12th, 2010 @ 2:19 am

I heard about this the day after it happened. We do not have a subway in this city and everyone is very prudish but I have vowed to a higher power that next year I will be pants less on a train wherever I may be!


Monique Niccole
Jan 12th, 2010 @ 2:32 pm

I completely forgot about this event until two people walked by me with no pants on in Union Square. I totally missed out!


Matrix
Jan 12th, 2010 @ 6:02 pm

Thats awesome. I wish I lived in subway city


Samson
Jan 13th, 2010 @ 12:11 am

tanner, I too, have an american flag speedo. my is actually a thong.

I’ve got a few cool pics of roaming around the town with it on.

facebook.com/samthegladiator


Glade
Jan 13th, 2010 @ 4:31 pm

I just read this article about a girl in Austin going to a PUA workshop. Really hilarious, thought you might want to read it. http://austinist.com/2010/01/13/hello_my_name_is_pick-up_artist_boo.php


Jake
Jan 13th, 2010 @ 10:07 pm

Huzzah for the 2010 No Pants Metro Ride! About 500 of us met up in D.C. to ride around in our underwear for a few hours of frigid fun.

Apparently over a dozen countries and 30+ cities took part in the event. It’s both crazy and awesome to think that there are so many people willing to have a random good time like that.


rhyan
Jan 20th, 2010 @ 2:20 am

wow, im from pinas, i would like to see that dramatic action from subway, More powers


Chris
Feb 9th, 2010 @ 3:01 pm

Having lived in the US for about three and a half years (I’m originally from Europe), I must admit one thing I still don’t get is the downright OBSESSION Americans (mainly guys) seem to have about not wearing pants. And just to avoid confusion, let me state here for the record that yes, I’m a guy too, and no, I’m not a nancyboy, or a feminist, or any chump of that sort.

I still have to ask though –
What’s wrong with wearing pants?
Yes, I can see the entertainment value in participating in something like a no pants subway ride. Hell, I might even participate in it if I lived in a city that had a subway. Especially if there are girls doing it to.
I can also see why one might opt to not wear any pants while at home.

But I’m not talking about these particular cases. What puzzles me is that guys all over the states seem to constantly feel oppressed by the fact that society expects them to wear pants. For god’s sake, there was even a super bowl ad this year featuring a bunch of guys wearing no pants, marching across a field and proclaiming their apparent delight in the form of a song (ironically enough, it was an ad for pants).
If wearing pants is really such a big issue to you, why don’t you just start wearing kilts? If enough people do it, it might even become a fashion trend.

I, for one, love wearing pants. I don’t see anything wrong with wearing pants. They keep your legs warm. They keep your ass warm. They keep the family jewels warm, especially in FREAKING JANUARY. Why take them off?

As long as I lived in Europe, the only person I’ve seen not wearing pants was Homer Simpson. From my experience, there are no men who would prefer not wearing any pants — the “no pants” meme seems to be an entirely American phenomenon.

The only explanation I can come up with is the fact any kind of public exposure of body parts is generally frowned upon, as evidenced by the lack of nude beaches, and general derision of nudists as perverts, while Europe in general is much more tolerant of these things (for example, there is usually no fine for women sunbathing topless on a public beach). If that’s the reason behind the “no pants” obsession, however, this would lead to the conclusion that Americans, or at least a sizable percentage of them, are all secret exhibitionists, but lack the balls to stand by it and vote for according changes in the law (i.e. oppose the closing of nude beaches, reform public indecency laws, etc.). Maybe the no pants subway ride is secretly a demonstration of this, but why, then, claim that “there is no message”?

Am I missing something here? Can somebody please explain what the hell is the big deal with wearing pants in this country?

Join the discussion! Use the form below to add your thoughts.


Your comment

Tynan.net is written, designed, and coded by Tynan. All rights reserved, no content other than excerpts with return links may be reproduced without permission. Icons by Dry Icons.